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An Essay
“If one sees two or more figures partly overlapping one another and each of them claims for itself the common overlapped part then one is confronted with a contradiction of spatial dimensions.”
To resolve this contradiction, one must assume the presence of a new optical quality. The figures are endowed with transparency:
- That is they are able to interpenetrate without optical destruction of each other.
- Transparency however implies more than an optical characteristic, it implies a broader spatial order.
- Transparency means a simultaneous perception of different spatial locations.”*
- In addition to the idea of transparency, there is also the notion of the fundamental cell, or megaron.
- “There are certain archetypal forms in architecture, forms that have recurred throughout the millennia in various cultural contexts…
- Through the combination of serial, centroidal and field organizations, we have established…the continuous space of our cities and the discontinuous space of our sanctuaries within them.”**
* Gyorgy Kepes, Language of Vision, (Chicago: Paul Theobald and Company 1944, p. 77)
** William La Riche, Introduction to “ Theory in Practice”, (Architectural Forum, September 1972, p. 34)
About Jeffrey R. Matz
Jeffrey R. Matz is an archetypal design thinker to whom "things designed" is as much a passionate avocation as an actual and true vocation. He believes fundamentally that project creation is about listening and leading at the same time and having a vision of how the project will present in the end.
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